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title: "Accessibility navigation"
date: "2025-02-26T14:37:31+00:00"
summary: "Learn how to navigate through the Accessibility module and use it to make your website accessible to all users. "
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Introduction
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This document provides information about the navigation within Acquia Web Governance Accessibility.

To navigate to Web Governance Accessibility:

1.  Log in to your Web Governance instance. For more information, read [Log in and access](/node/94751).
2.  Click **Accessibility**, an icon of a human with outstretched arms, on the left menu bar.

Accessibility summary
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The Accessibility summary page is the dashboard for Web Governance Accessibility.

The page displays accessibility issues as found by the scan in a number of different views, separated on the page into the following sections:

*   ### Accessibility score
    
    *   **Exclude assisted checks**: Turn this option **ON** to exclude assisted checks from the results. Assisted checks cannot be verified by the scan, and must be resolved by a human.
    *   **Accessibility score including assisted checks**: This number displays the percentage of checks, including assisted checks, that your website passes.   
        Note: If you turned on the option to exclude assisted checks, the system displays the percentage of checks that your website passes with those checks excluded.
    *   **Industry standard**: This number indicates how well, compared to other companies within your industry, your website complies with accessibility standards.   
        Note: The industry standard score is unavailable when you turn on the option to exclude assisted checks.
*   ### Compliance by level
    
    *   **Exclude assisted checks**: Turn this option **ON** to exclude assisted checks from the results. Assisted checks cannot be verified by the scan, and must be resolved by a human.
    *   Compliance by level including assisted checks
    *   Level: This indicates the level of WCAG compliance that was selected during Accessibility setup
        *   Done: The number of checks that have been marked as resolved since the last scan.
        *   To fix: The number of checks that need to be resolved.
*   ### Automated checks with high impact
    
    These are checks that are verified as failed by the scan. These failed checks have the highest impact on overall accessibility health.
    
    *   **View issues by type**: Click to navigate to the Accessibility issues by type page, where you can sort the issue types:
        *   **Automated checks**: These are accessibility checks that the scan is able to accurately identified as failing.
        *   **Assisted checks**: These are accessibility checks that cannot be determined by the scan and need a human review.
        *   **Ignored checks**: These are the failing checks that have been marked **Ignore** by a user. The scan does not consider these checks.
    *   The list contains the following columns:
        *   **Check**: The name of the failing check. Click the link to view all instances of this failing issue.
        *   **Affected pages**: The number of pages that contain this issue.
        *   **Severity**: The severity of the issue, determined by the number of pages that it appears on and the number of visits for that page.
*   ### Pages demanding attention
    
    These pages have the highest number of issues.
    
    *   **View issues by page**: Click to navigate to the Accessibility issues by page view, where you can view the following:
        *   **Page**: The page title
        *   **URL**: A link to the page
        *   **Page views (30 days)**: The number of views the page has received in the past 30 days
        *   **Issues**: The number of accessibility issues on the page
        *   **Labels**: All labels applied to the page
        *   **Open in**: Click **Extension** to open the page with the Web Governance Browser Extension, where you can highlight the issues on the page.
    *   The chart provides an overview of pages with errors, with the following columns:
        *   **Page**: A link to the page
        *   **Issues**: The number of accessibility issues on the page
*   ### Trends 
    
    *   Click **Visit History Center** to view issues over time
    *   Date range: Select a date range
    *   Export: Click to export accessibility trends in .csv format
    *   Click **How is accessibility score calculated** for more information about how the system calculates the accessibility score.
    *   **Exclude assisted checks**: Turn this option **ON** to exclude assisted checks from the results.
    *   **Accessibility score**: This number displays your overall accessibility score, up to 100%, which indicates a perfect score.   
        Note: If you turned on the option to exclude assisted checks, the system displays the percentage of checks that your website passes with those checks excluded.
    *   **Industry standard**: This number indicates how well, compared to other companies within your industry, your website complies with accessibility standards.   
        Note: The industry standard score is unavailable when you turn on the option to exclude assisted checks.
    *   Graph: View the following information in a timeline:
        *   Accessibility score
        *   Industry standard

### Left navigation bar

Expand the Accessibility menu and select from the following options.

*   Summary
*   Issues by type
*   Issues by page
*   Fast track
*   PDFs

Summary
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Select this option from the menu on the left to return to the _Accessiblity summary_ page.

Issues by type
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Select this option from the menu on the left.

You can take the following actions on this page:

*   Tabs
    *   **Automated checks**: Filter for automated checks. These are confirmed issues by the scan.
    *   **Assisted checks**: Filter for assisted checks. These are checks that the scan could not evaluate. These need a human review.
    *   **Ignored checks**: Filter for ignored checks. These are checks that have been reviewed by a human and determined to have no fixable errors.
*   **Search**: Search for specific issue names.
*   **Filter**: Filter for the following:
    *   Level
    *   Role
    *   Label
    *   Severity
*   **Edit columns**: Choose to show or hide table colums.
*   **Export**: Export the current view in .csv format.

Table columns

*   **Check**: The name of the failing check. Click the link to view all instances of this failing issue.
*   **Level**: The WCAG criteria level.
*   **Labels**: All labels applied to the page. Click the + icon to add a label.
*   **Role**: The typical role within an organization whose members have the competencies needed to resolve the issue.
*   **Severity**: The severity of the issue, Low, Medium, or High.
*   **Pages**: The number of pages affected by this failing issue.
*   **Actions**: Depending upon the tab selected, the options are:
    *   Automated checks: Ignore this check
    *   Assisted checks: Mark as fixed
    *   Ignored checks: Restore this check

Issues by page
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Select this option from the menu on the left.

You can take the following actions on this page:

*   **Search**: Search for specific issue names.
*   **Filter**: Filter for the following:
    *   Level
    *   Role
    *   Labels
    *   Severity
*   **Edit columns**: Choose to show or hide table colums.
*   **Export**: Export the current view in .csv format.

Table columns

*   **Page**: The page name, click the link to navigate to the page view for a list of all issues on the page.
*   **URL**: The URL for the page, click the link to view the page on the internet.
*   **Page views (30 days)**: The number of views the page has received in the past 30 days.
*   **Issues**: The number of accessibility issues on the page.
*   **Labels**: All labels applied to the page. Click the + icon to add a label.
*   **Open in**: On the same row as a page, click **Extension** to open the page in the browser extension.

Fast track
----------

Select this option from the menu on the left.

You can take the following actions on this page:

*   **Search**: Search for specific file names.

Table columns:

*   **Failing code**: Click **Show more** for the full code snippet and the option to copy to clipboard.
*   **Effect on score**: The percentage of improvement you can expect on your overall PDF compliance score if you repair the issue.
*   **Action**: Click **View affected checks** for the following detailed information about the failing check:
    *   **Affected checks for code**: The full code snippet with the option to copy to clipboard.
    *   Effect on score: The field provides the following insights: Resolving this code will reduce the gap between your current score and 100% compliance by (percentage shown).
    *   **Affected pages**: The number of pages where this code is present across the domain.
    *   **Failing checks**: The number of failing checks for this code.

Table 2 columns:

*   **Check**: The name of the failing check. Click the link to view all instances of this failing issue.
*   **Pages impacted**
*   **Level**
*   **Role**
*   **Severity**
*   **Actions**

PDFs
----

Select this option from the menu on the left.

You can take the following actions on this page:

Select a tab

*   **Internal PDFs**
    *   Pending
    *   Queued
    *   Failed
    *   Approved
    *   Table columns
        *   **Search**: Search for specific PDF names.
        *   **Filter**: Filter for the following:
            *   Level
            *   Role
            *   Labels
            *   Severity
        *   **Edit columns**: Choose to show or hide table colums.
        *   **Export**: Export the current view in .csv format.
*   **External PDFs**
    *   Select a tab:
        *   **Pending**
        *   **Approved**
    *   **Search**: Search for specific issue names.
    *   **Export**: Export the current view in .csv format.
*   Table columns
    *   **PDF link**
    *   **Actions**